Gala inaugural cakes spark awe and questions in Washington
Three sites will display symbolic inaugural cakes including a seven foot square Armory replica White House with a fountain and rum. ingredients total hundreds of pounds of butter sugar and fruit with 60 quarts of rum. Guests will not eat those cakes but token pieces will be cut for the president and vice president and their wives. Transportation costs to Washington run about 10 000 dollars.
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Washington
Armory
White House
New York
Pity-But True Americans Urged to Learn Cause and Effect
A newspaper column cites a poll claiming Americans favor price control inflation relief more medical care for the aged higher minimum wage tax cuts and federal aid while balancing the budget. The piece concludes Americans are prudent but need arithmetic lessons on cause and effect.
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Congress
Dence
Eisenhower Budget Proposes 81 Billion for Military and Government
President Eisenhower asks almost 81 billion dollars for the next fiscal year, nearly double Truman's 1950 military share. He envisions a federal surplus of about 1.5 billion if revenue grows and taxes rise, while Kennedy will set his own spending path beyond Eisenhower's plan.
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Truman
Congress
Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Jack Paar uses Primrose Magoo alias at Beverly Hilton
The Beverly Hilton hosts Jack Paar who adopts the disguise Primrose Magoo to dodge autograph seekers and phone calls. He frets over unlisted home numbers while testing hotel amenities and trying to reach Bronxville information.
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Beverly Hilton
Big Hollywood
Jack Paar
Primrose Magoo
Paar
Mr. Primrose Magoo
Twentieth Century Fox
Mr. Magoo
Magoo
National Broadcasting Company
New York
Mitzi
Los Angeles
Mr. Paar
Cecil B. DeMille
Bronxville
California
Beverly Hills
Dear Abby Advice Column From A 1960s Reader Letter
A reader asks how to pair a shy bachelor policeman with a single teacher. Abby suggests inviting the officer as a guest at a school function and arranging introductions. Further letters praise barber wages and discuss a separated woman seeking divorce over religion.
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Abby
Donors Deserve Respect for Blood Gifts and Smoke Link
Dr Crane argues that smoking patients undermine donor blood by carbon monoxide destroying red blood cells. A pint equals 10 percent of life given. smokers should quit to keep transfusions effective. He urges readers to request his booklet on breaking tobacco and liquor habits.
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Russell
American Medical Association
Pike’s Peak
Crane
Try and Stop Me by Bennett Cerf 1961 comic snippets
A collage of humorous notes and quips includes a writer rushing through Madison Avenue with a manuscript saying he must beat a publisher to print. A Cape Town gravestone memory jokes about body parts mislaid in medical care. A ninth grade poem from a Friends' School child ends with a playful line about wind making you visible.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Bennett Cerf
King Features Syndicate
Reedsville Notes From Local Residents
MISS LUCY KIBBLE reports a sequence of social visits and small events in Reedsville. Families including Carpenter, Humphrey, Bingham, Wilson, Taylor, Kibble, Balderson, Nichols, Reed, Ruth, and Randolph share weekend visits, hospital births, and a new car repair shop opening in the community. Many travelers visit from Parkersburg Athens Belpre Coolville and Joppa.
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Reedsville
Nathaniel Carpenter
Julia Ann
David Lowell
J. D. Kibble
Parkersburg
Ruth Ann Balderson
Belpre
Kathryn Dietz
W. E. Boggess
Verde Smith
Athens
Melanie Brennan
Paul Dean
Joppa
Mary Nichols
Garrett Reed
Coolville
Ernest Ruth
Elden Blake Jr
Paul Nichols
Randy Randolph
Little Hocking
C. H. Randolph
Eisenhower era analyzed and a fortunate presidency
George Sokolsky surveys Eisenhower as a popular yet constrained leader. He notes Congress’ partisan composition, McCarthy's fall, and a foreign policy seen as peace at a cost amid Soviet gains. The piece praises Ike’s delegation, staff organization, and understated scandal risk while envisioning his post presidency wealth and farm.
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Eisenhower
Joseph McCarthy
Soviet Russia
United States
South America
Nixon
Tokyo
China
Paris
United Nations
Khrushchev
Castro
Nehru
Tito
Nasser
John Foster Dulles
White House
State Department
Dulles
Rey
Robert Anderson
Ventures, Ltd
Treasury
Masty
Ike Eisenhower
Costs of school activities burdening underprivileged students
A reader column cites a Time Magazine study by Errett Hummel showing Oregon high school students spend about 238.65 dollars yearly on extracurriculars with transportation costs rising to 200 dollars in some districts. The piece argues that rising costs damage democracy by disadvantaging families with lower incomes. It also notes Defense requests for Ohio installations and John A. McCone joining Firstamerica Corp. board.
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Time Magazine
Errett Hummel
Portland
Oregon
State of
Hummel
Washington
Department of Defense
Congress
Ohio
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Hank
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Miss Lucy Kibble
George Sokolsky
Sherman Adams
Grant
Harding
Theodore Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Garry C. Myers
Bill High
AEC
Bank Los Angeles
John A. McCone
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Firstamerica Corp
Athens Messenger
Bally 'S
Dally & Sunda
Athens Ohio
Poe
Addresa All Mailing Co
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